I was not aware Hasbro did something to embarass themselves in the face of collectors.

As I recall, Orson said Neocron 'didn't work', which I assume means 'this toy is unstable' or 'not cost-effective at this pricepoint'.

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I believe it had alot to do with pricepoint versus the actual size of the toy. From what I understand... this guy stands about the size of Optimal Optimus. Or something like that, but it's complexity makes it have a higher production cost... kind of like RID Trains if I remeber what I read in his post about that.

I thought Armada Unicron was enough to make anyone forget about this thing. Amada Unicron has a full ring, a nicer planet mouth, and is damn near being exactly like the movie version when Transformed. I'll can live with a less round planet mode so long as the robot better embodies Unicron

Honestly, I prefer what we got. The front end of the planet mode doesn't do it for me, and with a backpack like that he looks uber topheavy.
Transformation wise though, he reminds me a lot of Primus. I guess HasTak took the overall concept and reevaluated it when they made their other planetformer.

Preach it brother man! I like Armade unicron, except his feet always seemed like someone just didn't want to take the time. It always seems that transformation becomes simpler the bigger they get and unicron was not an exception.